The UK's houses are still designed to retain heat. In an age of global warming, that needs to change.

The UK’s houses are still designed to retain heat. In an age of global warming, that needs to change.

    • fouc@lemm.eeOP
      5·
      2 years ago

      My previous house was like that. Top floor flat, western facing, drowned in sunlight 14 hours a day. Nice and bright but during moderately sunny and warm weather it was minimum 28°C all day long.

      Never again.

      • astroturds@startrek.website
        2·
        2 years ago

        As soon as people come in here they always ask why I’ve got the heating on. I’ve never got it on.

        On the plus side my clothes dry quicker than ever before! I nearly got one of those weird air heating pod things to dry them before I moved in but they get crispy just on the clothes horse.

    • juniper@feddit.uk
      2·
      2 years ago

      Same here, it gets unbearable - I sympathise with you. We have roof windows and last summer during the heatwave I think we touched 36°c inside. I’m dreading what might be to come this year. On the flip side in winter it was 8°c at times…Swings and roundabouts, right?

      • astroturds@startrek.website
        1·
        2 years ago

        You beat my score! It got up to 33 in here last year. At my previous house I almost always managed to keep it around 20ish and had the thermostat set to 18 in the winter, so it was a bit of a fucking shock to the system.